"God" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)

"God" Tagged Sermons (Page 2)

The Trustworthy God

When we see violence in the Bible, especially violence orchestrated by God, it is easy to pull back a bit from God and doubt whether or not He is the kind of God that we want to trust. Well as we reach the crescendo of the narrative of Jeremiah, the destruction of Jerusalem, we see God enact a brutal fate on the city and the king… but this judgment will actually fuel our trust in God rather than turn us…

The Futility of Idols

Feeling weak, isolated and oppressed, the nation of Judah turned her eyes to the powerful nations around her and began to entertain the idea that maybe their gods and customs were more powerful than Yahweh.  So God calls Jeremiah to outline for the people the peril of chasing after these idols and as he lays it out plain we will also be challenged to see what pursuing our own idols has the potential to do to us and how we…

The Daunting Call

The nation of Judah was under the pump.  Left isolated and vulnerable by Assyria’s decimation of the larger northern kingdom she felt the external pressure of the Assyrians to the north and the Egyptians to the south.  But internally she was sick as well.  She had endured a long reign of the evil King Manasseh who driven the nation into idol worship and all kinds of abhorred practices that went along with it… even the priests gave up on Yahweh…

In the Father’s Footsteps

Fatherlessness is such a huge problem in our society because without a father, especially young boys, have no tangible example of how the ethics and values of their family get lived out in the world.  This is the unique contribution that fathers make to society and in so many ways we long to follow in our fathers’ footsteps.  John continues on with the theme of the fatherhood of God we looked at last week to show us that how we…

The Father-Heart of God

As we celebrate Father’s Day 2014 we look at why God gave us dads.  He gave us earthly fathers so that we might understand more of His father-heart.  As we see and appreciate everything our dads do for us we should be reminded of the strong, intimate and loving relationship that God has with us His children.  Pastor Joe unpacks the wonder of God’s father-heart and the radical difference it makes to our life.
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